Monkey Island, 2024 Recently, I had the pleasure of "discovering" a very unusual lighthouse, the lighthouse on Monkey Island, Florida. This lighthouse isn’t located on an ocean or a huge lake. No, this lighthouse is on a tiny island in the Homosassa River. So how did it get there and why, you ask. [...]
Race Point Light, Cape Cod, MA, photo courtesy lighthousefriends.com Closed for overnight stays summer 2020. With the threat of the COVID virus pandemic, most everyone has been affected in some way. Our lives have changed, and our futures questioned. For those of us housebound, we’ve hoped for summer vacation as an escape from [...]
Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse. Photo by Chuck Turk Raise your hand if you want to go to Mosquito Inlet! If you’ve had any experience with those pesky insects, you might think twice. Mosquito Inlet was the exit point for two rivers in Florida – the Halifax River and the Hillsborough [...]
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse, photo courtesy of NASA When Cape Canaveral Lighthouse was first lit in 1848, its location was so remote, no one but the keeper and his family lived near it. However when the Civil War broke out in 1861, Keeper Mills Burnham had unexpected company. Under the orders of the new [...]